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During the time there, a report an afghan translator has been beheaded? >> yeah, thats right. weve met so many afghan translators who work for the u.s. military and had their special immigrant visas rejected. they say this has now signed their death sentence. this is not just paranoia. only two months ago, one of their friends who had been lobbying for the united states to review their cases, he was pulled over at a checkpoint by the taliban and be headed. weve seen the photos. weve spoken to hi...

Urging the protection of afghan interpreters and their families. thank you for taking the time tonight. >> thank you for having me on. >> it does feel like this is a very short order demand and a very short order task. reference there in the ad is to days and weeks. what do you think the time frame is here and do you think this is doable? >> yes, its doable. the war on terror has been with me my whole life. i reported on the 9/11 attacks as an editor of my middle school newspaper. i joined the m...

Freedom. >> there are thousands of after afghan interpreters that served our side. >> my interpreter is an american hero, too. >> we promised to have their backs. >> they put their lives on the line for us. >> the president did the honorable thing when he promised to get those who helped us out of harms way. now we need to get it done. >> we are do unto days and weeks to save thousands who served beside us. >> whatever it takes we in congress are ready to help. >> because we leave no one behind....

Backs. >> they put their lives on the line for us. >> the president did the honorable thing when he promised to get those who helped us out of harms way. now we need to get it done. >> we are do unto days and weeks to save thousands who served beside us. >> whatever it takes we in congress are ready to help. >> because we leave no one behind. >> we need to them, too. >> we need to take them, too. >> we need to take them, too, and give them the freedom they earned. >> joining us us now is a democ...

Problem. we could have a similar situation to the rise of isis in iraq and syria here in afghanistan. >> so before i let you guys go, doug, i quickly want to talk about u.s. responsibility on a local level and as former afghan interpreters we saw what happened to so many iraqi interpreters after iraq, threatened inside of iraq, seen as traitors. the same fate could face these afghan interpreters. what responsibility does the united states have to get these guys out, who worked for us for so long...

Exit they deserve at least that much and ill say this, there is no bigger proponent of ending foreign wars than president trump. that was indeed one of his chief arguments as he won the election in 2016. youve got to do it safely and responsibly. president obama said we have to end foreign wars safely but that did not happen in iraq as we saw that country that was taken over by isis. we do not want an act to hear. that means taking care of those 50 to 60,000 interpreters and their family. >> ben...

Or someone or a cousin who is an al qaeda affiliate and that isnt picked up in the security screening, thats a concern, and the second i think is about afghanistan itself. afghanistan is not over endowed with an educated professional class, and if you remove all these interpreters, the educated, the english speakers, the western sympathizers from the country, that doesnt leave much human capital for afghanistan to try to build a new society with. now, that said, if the taliban kills all of them ...

Very sorry to say this. this is a dreadful and huge mistake. >> there is concern about the interpreters and the drivers who helped u.s. forces. lets play this clip. >> these are interpreters and drivers, people who warned our american troops of threats. we have to get w them home. its incumbent upon us for our allies and any future endeavors to protect democracy. if our allies cant trust to us there their backs like these afghans had our backs in a 20 year war, we cant project our democratic val...

With the u.s. combat platoon when a roadside bomb struck his vehicle. >> it was my first and my worst experence. >> reporter: much worse was yet to come. he and his father abdul had gone to sell the family home when taliban militants came knocking one night. taliban millet taints came knocking one night. >> we just saw >> we just saw people climbing the walls, people with long beards, guns in their hands. they came inside and they kept p questioning, we know who you are. >> reporter: he said the...

>> bill: from afghanistan now, afghan military officials complaining about the u.s. handover of bagram airfield, that is north of kabul. they say that american forces left in the middle of the night without telling them. allegedly giving lou terrys a chance to swoop in and see a lot of things. meanwhile, the u.s. withdrawal created an urgent situation for afghan interpreters, many waiting on visas to come to the u.s. of which there could be thousands. former marine sergeant writing an op-ed in t...